Texas’ largest home, Champ D’Or, back on the market

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Briggs Freeman Sotheby's Real Estate

Not quite two years since it sold at auction and Texas' largest home, Champ d'Or is back on the market. The 48,000-square-foot house was built by mobile phone exec Alan Goldfield and his wife, Shirley. After putting a reported $46 million into it, the Goldfields discovered that a castle in Denton County is not that liquid. In the spring of 2012, a Dallas-based real estate family named Tabani bought it at auction, they have now listed the home with Rogers Healy with an asking price of $35 million.

Not quite two years since it sold at auction, Texas’ largest home, Champ d’Or, is back on the market. Rising out of the Denton County prairie like the castle of a Bond villain, the 48,000-square-foot house was built by mobile phone exec Alan Goldfield and his wife, Shirley. After putting a reported $46 million into it, the Goldfields (BTW, Champ d’Or means, Field of Gold. Get it?) discovered that a castle in Denton County is not that liquid. In the spring of 2012, a Dallas-based real estate family named Tabani bought it at auction.

A tip of the hat to ace real estate blogger Candy Evans, who reports that they have now listed the home with Rogers Healy with an asking price of $35 million. Healy tells Evans that the Tabanis completed extensive renovations and landscaping.

George-Musburger reunion

The University of North Texas is arranging an NFL Today mini-reunion in Dallas when it salutes alum Phyllis George at the March 5 Emerald Eagle Honors.

Back in the ’70s, the former Miss America was a reporter for the enormously popular NFL Today program on CBS. Her fellow NFL Today veteran, Brent Musburger, will come to Dallas to introduce her.

Held at the Meyerson Symphony Center, the Emerald Eagle Honors is a Kennedy Center Honors-style production. In addition to George, this year’s gathering will also honor Academy Award nominee Peter Weller and Pulitzer Prize winner Larry McMurtry.

Chiefs worth

Owned by Dallas’ Lamar Hunt family, the Kansas City Chiefs were recently valued at just over $1 billion by Forbes magazine. Is that too high?

“The value is only important if you plan on selling it,” Chiefs chairman and CEO Clark Hunt says this week in The Wall Street Journal. “We don’t focus on the franchise value because it’s a passion, and frankly it’s something we want to keep in our family for a long time.”

Like his father, who founded the Dallas Tornado soccer team, Clark Hunt is bullish on the future of soccer in America. The Hunts also own FC Dallas.

Major League Soccer and its owners have “21 franchises, and the sport has really accelerated,” he says. “I think, long term, soccer will be part of the top two, top three” more popular sports in America. “That’s where it is headed. I think that will happen in my lifetime.”

Cheney’s Dallas

For years, Dick Cheney was a heartbeat away from no heartbeat. He’ll be back in Dallas on Feb. 7 to support a cause that hits close to home — heart disease. The former veep is the keynote speaker at the 2014 Dallas Go Red Luncheon at the Hilton Anatole. It’s a benefit for the American Heart Association. Barbara Smith and Capera Ryan are co-chairs.

As most locals will recall, Cheney spent his years between the two Bush administrations as head of Halliburton. At his then-home in Highland Park he lived next to philanthropist Margaret McDermott and across the street from restaurateur Phil Romano.

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About Alan Peppard

MOST UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE ON THE JOB: Reintroducing myself to President George W. Bush after not seeing him for several years and having him reply, "Alan, you don't ever have to tell me who you are."

SOMETHING PEOPLE DON'T KNOW ABOUT ME: I have gills and webbed fingers and toes. I can talk to fish. I'm AquaMan!

IF I HAD TWO SPARE HOURS, I WOULD: Take a walk with my daughters.

I'M ALWAYS ENTERTAINED BY: "The Simpsons," four-part harmony and e-mails from the widow of Nigeria's minister of petroleum.

Hometown: Dallas, TX

Education: Greenhill School/SMU (political science major). I wanted to go to law school, but law school didn't want me. So I became a writer, first for D magazine and then for The Dallas Morning News.